Douglas Rushkoff's blog

The Internet as built will always be subject to government control and corporate domination. We must smash the fiction that it is some sort of uncontrollable, decentralized free-for-all, so that we can get on with creating something else that is. I've decided to convene a summit called Contact.

We tend to think of our technologies in terms of the applications they offer right out of the box instead of how we might change them.  We are content to learn what our computers already do instead of what we can make them do.  This isn't even the way a kid naturally approaches a video game.

The history of religion in the US from Puritanism to the present mirrors the evolution of capitalism. What we think of as "spirituality" today is not a departure from the narcissistic culture of consumption, but its truest expression.

We are watching a financial meltdown, but what's dying is not business itself, but a financial parasite. The future actually looks brighter unencumbered by an investment industry that is a drag on business.

A video of the opening "invocation" I did for the Personal Democracy Forum last week, and a preview of some of the concepts coming in my next book, Corporatized.

Nothing against Barak Obama, but we'd be mistaken to consider his politics a complete break from the past, a renaissance in participatory government, or the realization of an Internet-enabled "open source" democracy.

To watch the AMPTP (movie and TV producers) disinformation campaign against the Writers Guild of America (screenwriters) is to watch a replay of the record industry's profit-motivated suicide of the 1990's.

The iPhone's net effect is to take computing power away from people.

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's recently (re)-formed band, PTV3, just released its first album, Hell is Invisible... Heaven is Her/E. They kindly let me lay down a few tracks.

I believe that Bill and Hillary's self-presentation as Tony and Carmela Soprano – however tongue-in-cheek – will mark the critical turning point in Hillary's campaign. From a semiotic perspective, she has just "offed" herself.

I was obsessed with a strange and haunting show called The Cube as a kid. Thanks to YouTube, this little-known work of Henson's is back in the public eye.